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I've been trying to figure out what I'd answer the "what's your weirdest quote from The Simpsons that you use frequently" and haven't been sure.

But this is causing me to realize I probably quote The Simpsons A LOT without actually realizing I'm quoting it...

me: i want to sleep in a human-sized hotdog bun

911: sir that's.....ok actually that sounds great

me: so who do we call

911: [shouting in background] we're checking now

This is Bryan Stevenson— attorney, NYU law prof, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, author of "Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption". He has 2 degrees from Harvard and has argued cases at SCOTUS.

He say some judges instantly hate him and often mistake him for client he is defending.

This only happens to you once

The updated COVID/histamine link thread because people keep tagging me in to explain it and I keep intending to update the post from 2023 (synecdochic.dreamwidth.org/805203.html) and just not having the capacity because of my own health shit so here is a thread I can pin

obv significant that they admit this, but my understanding has been that this was self-evident? like you need a model of "what's true" in the system for it to be able to check against, and no such model exists?

I had never really thought about the fact that The Lord of the Rings is the 500,000+ word version of “the master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house” but here’s the explanation.

Over the last few days, I’ve learned that this guy who said vile things about me and those whom I love was coded and sold as a young Mr. Rogers to a very receptive audience. Has helped me understand the general response.

Journalists, however, are really blowing the moment by going along with it.

reposting with alt text because this feels incredibly significant. the right-wing disinfo machine means a lot of the people grieving Charlie Kirk never heard any of the things he said that would have tarnished his brand as Guy Who Just Wants to Have Dialogue Across the Aisle

This is exactly the right way to think of this; precisely what I'm saying, yes

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every city should have a hot dancing librarian

A drawing of a horse. The front half of the horse is black. The back half of the horse is white. The tail is black. Text reads: I defragged my zebra

This one is only for Blueskyers of a certain age.

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That sounds so fun!

Now I'm also hoping they moved on to discussing whether Mira Grant is local 😁

Something very very weird happened during the Hugos award ceremony... It's been on my mind for days, and so I wrote this blog: "When People Giggle at Your Name, or the 2025 Hugo Awards Incident"

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"Why do homeless people freak out like that, it's scary?" Consider how absolutely freaked out you would be with no actual safe space for yourself

Mental illness does contribute to people becoming homeless but I think sometimes people don't think about how being homeless causes and exacerbates mental illnesses. Please try to consider how your brain might be doing with a lack of privacy and constant trauma.

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LIVE: Tsunami warning issued for Hawaii after M8.7 earthquake off Russia The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center says the earthquake struck at 1:25 p.m. HST off the east coast of Kamchatka.

Holding all my kanaka comrades in my heart I read about these tsunami warnings. Keep safe, everyone in Hawaii.

“Take urgent action to protect life and property, including evacuations.”

Good guidance in this article about what to do:

www.hawaiinewsnow.com/2025/07/29/t...

The latest PTWC continental advisory has max. wave height forecasts that put the threat into perspective. Most areas on the north american coast expecting less than a foot, with a few notable exceptions. www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

Hawaii is a different story. www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

8.7 magnitude (!) earthquake off Kamchatka triggers tsunami warning for the Aleutian islands and tsunami watches down the Pacific coast www.tsunami.gov/events/PAAQ/...

ADHD friends, if you happen to be taking something for anxiety or depression, and you throw in something for allergies, you might have three or four things on this list. Stay cool.

I'm gutted and furious that the Iranian people will be injured, harmed and killed as a result of this absolutely depraved act of violence. What a complete travesty on every single level.

“I asked ChatGPT”
“I asked grok”

I asked Han Solo and he said we had a slight weapons malfunction, but, uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine, we're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?

I still quote this at least weekly

When a chatbot gets something wrong, it’s not because it made an error. It’s because on that roll of the dice, it happened to string together a group of words that, when read by a human, represents something false. But it was working entirely as designed. It was supposed to make a sentence & it did.

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

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